I agree it might be more flexible and serve better in multiple protocols
or environments if we avoid specifying one fixed form of concatenation. I
think Mark's point, which I have heard him making for over a year, now, in
UPDF and IPP meetings is that a client does need all this information in
order for any of it to be effective. I think we should head this
"warning".
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Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
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don at lexmark.com
Sent by: owner-ipp at pwg.org
04/09/2001 10:44 AM
To: "Mark VanderWiele" <markv at us.ibm.com>
cc: ipp at pwg.org, upd at pwg.org
Subject: IPP> Re: UPD> Don't stop Do what is necessary
Mark, et al:
I have no problem with creating the combined name but I think this is
better
done in the end standard that uses these names in a combined form. There
may be
reasons that UPD wants a certain set of characteristics in its media names
that
differ from what IPP might want, or uPnP might want, etc. If this
standard
tries to be all things to all users then it will never be done. One of
the
major issues raised by the IETF with IPP was it was just too big to deal
with.
It is thought to be better to create a number of smaller standards that
deal
with a smaller set of issues and then use those smaller standards as
building
blocks. I think this is a perfect example where smaller and simpler is
better.
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"Mark VanderWiele" <markv%us.ibm.com at interlock.lexmark.com> on 04/05/2001
09:58:15 AM
To: "Don_Wright/Lex/Lexmark.LEXMARK"@sweeper.lex.lexmark.com
cc: ipp%pwg.org at interlock.lexmark.com, upd%pwg.org at interlock.lexmark.com
(bcc:
Don Wright/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: Re: UPD> Don't stop Do what is necessary
Don: If you want to create a simple unusable standard than do it. Reality
is that media description and selection only makes sense if you have all
the information presented in a logical single description (including
location).
Regards,
Mark VanderWiele
IBM, Linux Technology Center
512-838-4779, t/l 678
MARKV at IBMUS
email: markv at us.ibm.com